City Council Packet 2020 05-19-20 supplemental packet 1
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Letter to Governor on Reopen Illinois Plan
Special City Council – May 19, 2020
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Bart Olson Administration
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Supplemental Information – distributed 05/18/20
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Lisa Pickering
From:Bart Olson
Sent:Monday, May 18, 2020 6:40 PM
To:Lisa Pickering
Cc:Erin Willrett
Subject:Fwd: Supplemental City Council packet - letter to Governor
Attachments:Letter to Governor - Yorkville draft 05-18-2020 4pm.docx
For inclusion in the cc packet.
Bart Olson
City Administrator
United City of Yorkville
630‐308‐0582 cell
bolson@yorkville.il.us
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Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 5:49:41 PM
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Subject: Supplemental City Council packet ‐ letter to Governor
Hello all (elected officials blindcopied),
Here is the draft letter to the Governor up for consideration at tomorrow night’s Special City Council meeting. The
attached letter will be sent out in a supplemental City Council packet shortly.
Thanks,
Bart Olson
City Administrator
United City of Yorkville
630‐553‐8537 direct
630‐553‐4350 City Hall
630‐308‐0582 cell
bolson@yorkville.il.us
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May 19, 2020
The Honorable Governor JB Pritzker (sent via email to gov.covid19stakeholder@illinois.gov)
James R. Thompson Center
100 W. Randolph, 16-100
Chicago, IL 60601
Dear Governor Pritzker:
We appreciate your efforts to reopen Illinois, and we will do everything we can to assist in
safely restarting the regional economy, of which Yorkville and Kendall County has been a leader of for
many years. We have seen a few different plans and requests by others in the state to break up the four
regions of your plan into 11 smaller regions. We agree with the concept of small regions, and would
ask that you would consider a plan that brings all of Kendall County into a region that is more alike to
our agricultural-based County.
In a separate correspondence, we have sent a reopening process memo from Yorkville based
Raging Waves, Illinois’s Largest Waterpark. While Raging Waves is one of our City’s largest
employers, they are a family owned business and operate with the personal touch of a small business.
Raging Waves and our other, more traditional, small businesses are ready to implement extensive
safety guidelines, cleaning procedures, and social distancing measures in their businesses in the same
way that large businesses have been allowed to safely operate for the past few weeks. Along these
same lines, we have heard from the owners and employees of Yorkville’s restaurant and bar industry,
and they are eager to find ways to safely operate and provide for their families again.
We understand that Phase III and Phase IV of your Restore Illinois plan will provide some
additional relief to small businesses, and bars and restaurants. We look forward to those transition
dates. Until then, we ask that you consider all ideas and options to provide the same opportunities to
small businesses as you have for large businesses, and to provide opportunities for our dining and
hospitality industry to open as soon as safely possible.
I appreciate your consideration of our requests. We are willing to remotely meet, discuss, and
plan with you and your staff to solve this issue for the region. Please contact me at
jpurcell@yorkville.il.us or 630-553-4350 if you wish to discuss this further.
Sincerely,
John Purcell, Mayor
United City of Yorkville
United City of Yorkville
800 Game Farm Road
Yorkville, Illinois 60560
Telephone: 630-553-4350
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